A Very Green Boomer Meal with a dash of COVID Rejection

A vitamin-packed, easy and delicious meal. You will need:

An artichoke (which you'll enjoy with melted butter and lemon juice whisked together or Hollandaise sauce--the packaged kind you heat up for two minutes)

Salt

Olive oil--about two tablespoons

One or two red onions

Several cloves of garlic, pressed

Several small packages of spinach or one big one

Feta cheese

Filo dough

 

The artichoke is the appetizer. If it's a large one, it needs about an hour to boil. Dump it into a large pot filled with water at a rolling boil and a handful of salt:

While the artichoke is incubating, or before, wash and drain your spinach. While it's still draining in a colander, chop the red onion gently sauté it. Add the pressed garlic and then the spinach: 

The spinach will fill the pan, but quickly cook down: 

Now you can get out your filo dough. I used this: 

Unpack the dough--you'll have about eight sheets--and cut it in half. Take two or three of the half-sheets and place them in a large baking dish (or cookie sheet) you've slicked slightly with olive oil. Each sheet should be baptized in at least a drop of oil, then spread out. Expectantly.

 Onto these anointed sheets, place a dollop of the spinach-onion-garlic mix. Savor the aroma!

If you're vegan, you're nearly done. You just fold the ends over the spinach mix, bake the little thing for about twenty minutes at around 190º, and yum!

But I'm a Boomer so I added the feta:

Then I folded up the ends:

Bake this til it's crispy brown--generally about fifteen or twenty minutes, but keep checking to make sure it doesn't burn. You can cover it with a sheet of baking parchment for a few minutes (or loose aluminum foil--you don't want to steam it though).

And to drink? This stuff looked fun: 

Red wine. But not just any red wine. You Americans: The title translates as VACCINE. But this being Germany, there's a cute little disclaimer underneath, reading: "Protects against no virus but makes the situation somewhat more comfortable."

Sure thing. It's also a "Qualitätswein" for "everyone with a sense of humor." Now is the wine a joke, or is this a really fun wine also belonging to that specifically German category of pretty good table wine--definitely a notch above rot gut, but not the very highest level. Probably pretty damn good, but I'll write a postscript if not.

Postscript: Chateaux Pissoir. Oh, in my opinion.